You are designing a build pipeline in Azure Pipelines. The pipeline requires a self-hosted agent. The build pipeline will run once daily and will take 30 minutes to complete. You need to recommend a…

The correct answer is B. Azure Container Instances. If your pipelines are in Azure Pipelines, then you've got a convenient option to run your jobs using a Microsoft-hosted agent. With Microsoft-hosted agents, maintenance and upgrades are taken care of for you. Each time you run a pipeline, you get a fresh virtual machine. The…

Submitted by devops_kid· Mar 6, 2026Design and implement build and release pipelines

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You are designing a build pipeline in Azure Pipelines. The pipeline requires a self-hosted agent. The build pipeline will run once daily and will take 30 minutes to complete. You need to recommend a compute type for the agent. The solution must minimize costs. What should you recommend?

Options

Aan Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster
BAzure Container Instances
Can Azure virtual machine scale set
DAzure virtual machines

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A
10% (4)
B
83% (33)
C
5% (2)
D
3% (1)

Explanation

If your pipelines are in Azure Pipelines, then you've got a convenient option to run your jobs using a Microsoft-hosted agent. With Microsoft-hosted agents, maintenance and upgrades are taken care of for you. Each time you run a pipeline, you get a fresh virtual machine. The virtual machine is discarded after one use. Microsoft-hosted agents can run jobs directly on the VM or in a Note: You can try a Microsoft-hosted agent for no charge. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/hosted

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